Sunday, November 23, 2014

This River Will Be Out early December 2014

This River will be out soon! Printing and shipping is in process, and I expect books by early December. If you have pre-ordered, you'll have your books well before the December holidays.***Readings and Events so far:

January 10, 2015, Saturday–11-1 PM.Book signing at Paperbacks Plus, Siler City, Pat Dawson.January 21, 7 PM (Wed), Reading at Regulator Bookshop (Durham) with Jaki S. Green, recently inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.January 23, 6 PM (Fri), Conversation with Jackie Helvey on the Wacqueline Stern show, WCOM, Carrboro-Chapel Hill Community radio. A link will be available afterwards from Judy.January 27, 7 PM, (Tues), Reading at South Regional Library (Durham)March 11, Wed. 7 PM Chatham Community Library, Pittsboro, with Jaki S. Green. March 24, Tues, Goldsboro. Reading and Publishing Workshop. Details to be announced.April 9, Thurs, 7 PM. Reading at Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, with a second poet. Open poetry reading follows.***This River and other recent Hogan titles (Beaver Soul, Farm Fresh and Fatal, and Killer Frost) are available at The Joyful Jewel (Pittsboro), Circle City Books (Pittsboro), Paperbacks Plus (Siler City), as well as at all the venues for the reading of This River.***This River: An Epic Love Poem, is also available from the publisher www.wildembers.com and

“I
think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who
can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken
society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine
some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom:
poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality. Right now, I think we need
writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the
practice of an art. The profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of
kings. … Power can be resisted and changed by human beings; resistance and
change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words. I’ve had
a long career and a good one, in good company, and here, at the end of it, I
really don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. … The
name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is
freedom.”

About Me

I write mystery novels, poetry, autobiographical books, reviews and articles. My Hoganvillaea Farm provides about half my food. I sell eggs and figs. My newest book, Grace: A China Diary, 1910-16 came out April 12, 2017. The next Penny Weaver mystery comes out June 1,2017: Political Peaches. Formaldehyde, Rooster (2016, Nuclear Apples? The Third Penny Weaver Mystery, 2016. The Sands of Gower: The First Penny Weaver Mystery (2015), Haw (2016): The Second Penny Weaver Mystery. Killer Frost (2012) and Farm Fresh and Fatal (2013) will be re-published in 2017 This River: An Epic Love Poem came out from Wild Embers Press in 2014. You may order all the books from me, as well as my poetry chapbook Beaver Soul (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and This River:An Epic Love Poem (2014): PO Box 253, Moncure, NC 27559 mysteries cost $16, with postage, $19;Grace costs $28, $30 if mailed. Beaver Soul is $13; $16 if mailed. This River is $15 if picked up, $18 if mailed. My PMZ Poor Woman's Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes for Survival and Health in the Menopausal and Post-Menopausal Years. $10; $13 if mailed. I hold the copyright to all the material on my blog, which I've written.